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Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 4 – September 21-22 (PDF) WEEK 4 PREVIEW: The MAC plays eight different FBS conferences in Week 4, with the exception of the Pac-12 as conference schools take on ACC (Florida State), Big Ten (Rutgers), Big 12 (Iowa State), SEC (Ole…

Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 3 – September 13-15 (PDF) WEEK 3 PREVIEW: The Conference USA schedule features three games at SEC schools, including Middle Tennessee at No. 3 Georgia, North Texas at Arkansas and UTEP at Tennessee. Other key non-conference games are at WKU at…

Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 2 – September 8 (PDF) WEEK 2 PREVIEW: MAC programs face three Power 5 conference opponents Saturday as Kansas (Big 12) will travel to Central Michigan, Maryland (Big Ten) will head to Bowling Green and Utah (Pac-12) will visit Northern Illinois…

Click here to read the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl Weekly Release – Week 1 – August 30-September 1 (PDF) SINCE WE LAST VISITED: The fifth-annual Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl begins the road to its’ 2018 game this weekend. As with the first four editions of the bowl, this year’s game will feature teams from…

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Illinois – Elk Grove Village, using its business slogan – Makers Wanted – has been announced as the title sponsor of the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl, to be played December 21, 2018 in Nassau, Bahamas. The Makers Wanted tagline serves as a call-to-action for Elk Grove Village’s thriving community and the thousands…

Below is the highlight video of the 2017 Bahamas Bowl week in Nassau between UAB and Ohio. Relive the bowl week events from around the Atlantis Bahamas resort and Nassau. Video produced for Bahamas Bowl/ESPN Events by ESPN Events (footage courtesy of Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Atlantis Bahamas, UAB, Ohio University, 10th Year Seniors and…

Bahamas Bowl 2017 Review-2018 Preview (PDF) The Bahamas Bowl and ESPN Events, along with Bahamian government officials, the Mid-American Conference and the Atlantis resort, kicked off preparations for the fifth-annual bowl game with a press conference at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium. The stadium once again will be the site of the contest on…

The fifth annual Bahamas Bowl has been set for Friday, Dec. 21, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. ET. The game, held in Nassau’s 15,000-seat Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, will be broadcast in the United States for the fifth consecutive year by ESPN. For the third straight year, the game date falls at the start of…

Four student-athletes who played in the Bahamas Bowl will get their opportunity to make NFL rosters after being selected in the 2018 NFL Draft, held April 26-28 in Arlington, Texas. Three of the universities that participated in the Bahamas Bowl – Middle Tennessee (2015), Ohio (2017) and Western Michigan (2015) – had at least one…

The Bahamas Bowl took an opportunity to thank everyone who assisted in the success of the 2017 game with a half-page ad in The Nassau Tribune.